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Mary, Countess of Derby, and the Politics of Victorian Britain. By Jennifer Davey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi+196. $85.00. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Arianne Chernock
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Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen’s England. By Rory Muir. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi+374. $35.00. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Peter Geoffrey Barry Hicks
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Ghetto: The History of a Word. By Daniel B. Schwartz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. xii+266. $35.00. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Francesca Bregoli
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Geschichte machen: Historisches Forschen und die Politik der Archive. By Philipp Müller. Archive und historisches Wissen: Die Geschichte einer zunehmenden Verflechtung. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2019. Pp. 518. €44.90. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 George S. Williamson
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The Vampire: A New History. By Nick Groom. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. xx+320. $25.00. The Vampire: Origins of a European Myth. By Thomas M. Bohn. Translated by Francis Ipgrave. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. Pp. xvi+288. $130.00. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Kathryn A. Edwards
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“A Forgetting for Everyone, by Everyone”? Spain’s Memory Laws and the Rise of the European Community of Memory, 1977–2007 The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Julia López Fuentes
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Hitler: A Global Biography. By Brendan Simms. New York: Basic Books, 2019. Pp. xxvi+668. $40.00 (cloth); $19.99 (e-book). The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Derek Hastings
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Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Charlotte Greenhalgh. Berkeley Series in British Studies. Edited by Mark Bevir and James Vernon, volume 12. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+262. $85.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper or e-book). Growing Old with the Welfare State: Eight British Lives. Edited by Nick Hubble, Jennie Taylor, and Philip Tew. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. x+160 The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Sandra Trudgen Dawson
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Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire By Prashant Kidambi. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv+424. $32.95. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Kausik Bandyopadhyay
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Murder and Memory at the Munich Olympics The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Noel D. Cary
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Thinking Black: Britain, 1964–1985. By Rob Waters. Berkeley Series in British Studies, volume 14. Edited by James Vernon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. xvi+304. $85.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper or e-book). Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain. By Kieran Connell. Berkeley Series in British Studies, volume 15. Edited by James Vernon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019 The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jodi Burkett
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Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World. By Henning Trüper. Europe’s Legacy in the Modern World. Edited by Martti Koskenniemi and Bo Stråth. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. x+364. $115.00 (cloth); $103.50 (e-book). The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Doug McGetchin
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Teaching Britain: Elementary Teachers and the State of the Everyday, 1846–1906. By Christopher Bischof. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. x+230. $93.00. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Heather Ellis
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Hitler–Beneš–Tito: National Conflicts, World Wars, Genocides, Expulsions, and Divided Remembrance in East-Central and Southeastern Europe, 1848–2018. By Arnold Suppan. Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, volume 893. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2019. Pp. xii+1134. €148.00. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Igor Lukes
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Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World. Edited by Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Shonkoff. Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry. Edited by Jehuda Reinharz et al. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2020. Pp. xxx+306. $90.00 (cloth); $26.00 (paper); $24.99 (e-book). The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 David Biale
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Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain. By Jordanna Bailkin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+290. $39.95. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Andrew Thompson
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Raconter la guerre: Souvenirs des élèves du département du Nord (1920). Edited by Philippe Marchand. Preface by Jean-François Condette. Documents et témoignages. Edited by Xavier Boniface. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Les presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2020. Pp. 272. €22.00 (paper). The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Martha Hanna
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Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation. By Anton Howes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+388. $35.00. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Theodore Koditschek
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An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries. By Emma Rothschild. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. x+448. $35.00. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 William H. Sewell
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Forgetting the Great War? The Langemarck Myth between Cultural Oblivion and Critical Memory in (West) Germany, 1945–2014 The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Mark Connelly,Stefan Goebel
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Du livre à la finance: Crédit et discrédit de la librairie parisienne au XIXe siècle. By Viera Rebolledo-Dhuin. Preface by Jean-Yves Mollier. CTHS Histoire, volume 63. Aubervillers: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2019. Pp. 382. €28.00 (paper). The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Erika Vause
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1989: A Global History of Eastern Europe. By James Mark, Bogdan C. Iacob, Tobais Rupprecht, and Ljubica Spaskovska. New Approaches to European History. Edited by T. C. W. Blanning and Brendan Simms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. viii+372. $84.99 (cloth); $26.99 (paper); $22.00 (Adobe eBook Reader). The Long 1989: Decades of Global Revolution. Edited by Piotr H. Kosicki and Kyrill The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 William I. Hitchcock
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Asylum Seekers, Antiforeigner Violence, and Coming to Terms with the Past after German Reunification The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Christopher A. Molnar
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José Antonio Primo de Rivera: The Reality and Myth of a Spanish Fascist Leader. By Joan Maria Thomàs. Translated by John Bates. Studies in Latin American and Spanish History, volume 3. Edited by Scott Eastman and Vicente Sanz Rozalén. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. Pp. 368. $149.00 (cloth); $34.95 (e-book). The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 George Esenwein
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Law in West German Democracy: Seventy Years of History as Seen through German Courts. By Hugh Ridley. Studies in Central European Histories. Edited by David M. Luebke and Celia Applegate. Boston: Brill, 2019. Pp. xiv+328. $126.00 (cloth or e-book). The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Kenneth F. Ledford
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The Complete Lives of Camp People: Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity. By Rudolf Mrázek. Theory in Forms. Edited by Nancy Rose Hunt and Achille Mbembe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. viii+486. $119.95 (cloth); $32.95 (paper). The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Dan Stone
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The Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars: Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy. By Alan Rosen. Jewish Literature and Culture. Edited by Alvin H. Rosenfeld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii+252. $80.00 (cloth); $35.00(paper); $14.99 (e-book). The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Elisheva Carlebach
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Race, Nation, History: Anglo-German Thought in the Victorian Era. By Oded Y. Steinberg. Intellectual History of the Modern Age. Edited by Angus Burgin et al. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. viii+272. $65.00. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 H. Glenn Penny
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Stalin: Passage to Revolution. By Ronald Grigor Suny. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xxiv+858. $39.95. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 J. Arch Getty
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Religion and Society at the Dawn of Modern Europe: Christianity Transformed, 1750–1850. By Rudolf Schlögl. Translated by Helen Imhoff. Cultures of Early Modern Europe. Edited by Beat Kümin and Brian Cowan. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. vi+352. $120.00 (cloth); $108.00 (e-book). The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 David Spadafora
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Project Europe: A History. By Kiran Klaus Patel Translated by Meredith Dale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. x+380. $26.95 (cloth); $22.00 (Adobe eBook Reader). The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Mathias Haeussler
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Advertising the Self in Renaissance France: Lemaire, Marot, and Rabelais. By Scott Francis. The Early Modern Exchange. Edited by Gary Ferguson and Meredith K. Ray. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2019. Pp. xvi+268. $70.00 (cloth); 35.00 (paper); $70.00 (e-book). The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Zachary S. Schiffman
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Wicked City: The Many Cultures of Marseille. By Nicholas Hewitt. London: Hurst & Company, 2019. Pp. xiv+292. £20.00. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Minayo Nasiali
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At the Limits of Citizenship: Democratization and the Problem of Nonvoting in Britain and France, ca. 1848–2018 The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Tom Crook,Malcolm Crook
In contrast to the democratic principle that all adults should enjoy the right to vote, which is now a global norm, nonvoting has escaped any sort of historical closure. Millions of electors have always failed to vote, whether under conditions of limited, mass, or fully universal suffrage—and, in most Western states, electoral abstention is now at record levels. Yet despite its long-standing status
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The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945. By Olivier Wieviorka. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. Foreword by Robert O. Paxton. European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Pp. xxii+490. $38.00 (cloth); $37.99 (e-book). The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Valerie Deacon
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History: Why It Matters. By Lynn Hunt. Cambridge: Polity, 2018. Pp. 142. $64.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper); $8.95 (e-book). In the Name of History. By Joan Wallach Scott. The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series at Central European University, Budapest. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2020. Pp. 134. $24.95. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Sophia Rosenfeld
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Dignified Retreat: Writers and Intellectuals in the Age of Richelieu. By Robert A. Schneider. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi+356. $90.00. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Oded Rabinovitch
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The Anatomy of the Holocaust: Selected Works from a Life of Scholarship. By Raul Hilberg. Edited by Walter H. Pehle and René Schlott. Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Edited by Jonathan D. Huener, Francis R. Nicosia, Susanna Schrafstetter, and Alan Steinweis. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. Pp. viii+250. $149.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). German Railroads, Jewish Souls: The Reichsbahn The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Hilary Earl
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Germany, a Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500–2000. By Helmut Walser Smith. New York: Liveright, 2020. Pp. xvi+590. $39.95. The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Mark Hewitson
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“La Langue de nos maîtres”: Linguistic Hierarchies, Dialect, and Canon Decolonization During and After the Présence Africaine Congress of 1956 The Journal of Modern History (IF 0.833) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Sarah Claire Dunstan
Very little attention has been paid to the role of language in the Présence Africaine debates over British and French decolonization in the 1950s and early 1960s. My article fleshes out this history by exploring how key intellectuals connected to the journal and publishing house understood the relationship between race, decolonization, and language. First, I sketch out the historical context for these
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